Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:03:44 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP installer [Was: Script language for installer] In-Reply-To: <3739D966.ADE9216A@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 May 1999, Richard Dawe wrote: > 4. Built in ZIP decompressor using zlib > > I think (4) would solve the problem encountered earlier by Laurynas > Biveinis (LB) and others with LBInstDJ about hacking the registry to > set/unset NameNumericTail. We should be able to choose the output filename > => force it to fit 8+3 convention. I don't see how this will solve the problem that requires messing with NameNumericTail. If you unzip the file into its 8+3-truncated name, you lose the long name. For example, if you unzip streambuf.h and force the output name to be streambu.h, what you get is a file whose short *and long* names are `streambu.h'. This will break the compiler under LFN=y. I'm not aware of any way to force Windows to use a specific string as a short 8+3 alias when it creates a long file name. The only thing you *can* do is tell Windows which digit to use in the numeric tail (*if* there is a tail). > Also, has anyone thought of adopting the use of a DJGPP Software Map > (.dsm) in every archive? Could you please explain what this is? I don't know much about Linux-specific quirks and packages. Even rpm is only vaguely familiar.